Residential District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by 5th, 4th, Crow and Cody, Hardin, 59034
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. district
Also known as. Hardin MRA
Census division. Hardin
National Register reference number. 85001846 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Residential District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,605 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Arson/incendiarism	17
Fireworks	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Crow Agency	RAILROAD
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Crow Agency	FIRE BROOM
5 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Crow Agency	GOOD BYE
3 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Crow Agency	PIT
29 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crow Agency	DUST
29 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	850 HWY 87 E
28 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Crow Agency	BIG
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Crow Agency	BUCK

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Residential District: 6 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hardin Bentonite	Bentonite	Past Producer
Melville Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Torski Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this property

60 of 121 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardin, the town this property stands in, in 121 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 73 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	1 killed, 6 hurt	Around 4:15 PM MDT, a thunderstorm outflow moved through the Hardin area. It produced a wind gust of 62 mph in the 4:35 PM MDT observations from the Big Horn County Airport. Along with the outflow winds, blowing dust reduced visibility to less than a quarter mile on the AWOS. This resulted in a 20 to 30 vehicle pile up along Interstate 90 around mile marker 493 reported at 4:30 PM MDT, very close to the airport. Prior to this, the Montana DOT RWIS station at Arrow Creek Hill, 25 miles west of Hardin, reported a peak wind gust of 48 mph about 15 minutes prior. This accident resulted in 6 deaths and multiple injuries.
July 1998	Hail	Hardin	$100,000	Baseball sized hail damaged numerous vehicles and broke several windows and yard lights.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	$10,000	Wind damage. Large tree downed. Roof damaged.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	$3,000	Wind damage with 60-70 mile per hour winds. Large trees downed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	$2,000	58 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Tree limbs down.
August 2025	Hail	Hardin	-	From phone call.
June 2025	Hail	Hardin	-	One inch hail reported.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	AWOS station 2 west northwest Hardin.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Blowing debris caused car damages at campground.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Big Horn County Airport awos.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Large tree limbs were reported to be broken.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Winds of at least 84 mph produced damage in Hardin. An 84 mph wind gust was reported 8 miles west of Hardin. Several trees were blown down. In addition, semi trailers were flipped, while damage to buildings occurred, and power poles snapped.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Visibility was reported to be 1/2 mile from blowing dust.
July 2022	Hail	Hardin	-	Quarter size hail along with 50 to 60 mph winds were reported.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Visibility was under a quarter mile due to blowing dust.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	A wind gust estimated at 70 mph resulted in a downed tree.
June 2015	Flood	Hardin	-	Streets and sewers were flooded throughout town. The EMS station was evacuated due to flooding. In addition, water was reported in the Sheriffs office flooding cell blocks and the squad room.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Power outages occurred due to falling tree limbs taking out power lines, as well as a power pole being snapped.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	A large tree was downed in town.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Winds were estimated at 75 mph and were accompanied by dime size hail. One home had several windows broken due to flying debris and hail. Several large tree limbs, as well as three power poles were downed. In addition, 300 acres of sugar beet crop were destroyed. There were also numerous vehicles on the highway that had broken windows.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Tops of trees and 8 inch limbs were broken.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Severe thunderstorms developed over Billings, MT at approximately 730pm on Wednesday, June 15th. These thunderstorms progressed east across South Central Montana, basically tracking just north of Interstate 90 from Billings to Hardin. The southern flank of the storm produced persistent winds in excess of 60 mph. \|\|At 830 pm, the severe winds enhanced over Hardin, MT. National Weather Service officials conducted a survey of the damage and determined that the damage was the result of microburst winds that surged well south of the associated thunderstorm. Local wind speeds were estimated to have reached speeds of 90 mph. The hardest hit area was the southwest side of Hardin. Several businesses experienced at least partial roof damage. This same area saw numerous trees either snapped off or uprooted and homes with shingles blown off them.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	The public reported three inch tree limbs down as a result of estimated winds of 70 mph.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	A semi-trailer was blown over on Interstate 90 at mile marker 492.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Several power line poles were down along Highway 47 from mile markers 4 through 9. This was a result of an estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 80 mph 5 miles north of Hardin.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Power lines were down with fire starts in the area as a result of an estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 75 mph in Hardin.
June 2008	Hail	Hardin	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported on Highway 495 at the exit to Hardin.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Six to eight inch diameter Cottonwood tree branches were broken.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	A large sign was blown over at a Shell station.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	4 inch Cottonwood tree branches broken.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	2 inch diameter tree limbs broken
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	1 inch diameter size tree branches broken
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Power outage
July 2002	Funnel Cloud	Hardin	-	Public reported a possible funnel cloud
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	100 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Several 5 to 6 foot diameter trees blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	60 mph thunderstorm wind gust estimated by spotter.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	60 mph thunderstorm wind gust estimated by spotter.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	80 mph thunderstorm wind gust...hay shed destroyed on Fly Creek Road
July 2001	Flash Flood	Hardin	-	5 inches of water over I-90
July 2001	Flash Flood	Hardin	-	3 feet of water covering Custer Street and 7th and 8th Streets. Widespread downtown flooding.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Hardin	-	Flooding in town. 2 to 3 feet of water is common
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	61 mph thunderstorm wind gust at the Pryor Mountain RAWS site.
July 2001	Hail	Hardin	-	Hail covered the ground
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	Wind damage with 60 mph wind gust. Power outage.
August 1999	Hail	Hardin	-	Spotter report of nickel size hail.
July 1999	Hail	Hardin	-	Spotter report of dime size hail.
July 1998	Hail	Hardin	-	Several reports of nickel to dime sized hail and heavy rains in Hardin.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hardin	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Hardin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
James J. Sullivan House	0.1 miles	1991
First Baptist Church	0.1 miles	1991
J. J. Ping House	0.2 miles	1991
Commercial District	0.2 miles	1985
Sullivan Rooming House	0.2 miles	1991
Thomas H. Burke House	0.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001846 in Record Group 79.
Big Horn County	All 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.